Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies",
> >
> > You upgraded portage.  The einfos said to run 'emerge
> > --metadata' first thing.
>
> I'm also seeing this from time to time - "emerge -Duvat world"
> just seems to take forever at the "Calculating world
> dependencies" after I ran "eix-sync" which includes "emerge
> --sync". And I haven't updated portage. Any ideas?

You're still at portage-2.0.*?  The latest versions of those were 
known to be terribly slow at updating the cache.  Sometimes.  When 
there were lots of changes in the KDE stuff.

> I don't think it's a missing "emerge --metadata", as the metadata
> generation is included when running "emerge --sync" (Updating
> Portage cache:  100%), isn't it?

Hrrrm.  Yes it was a missing "emerge --metadata".  You will see when 
you upgrade.

Benno
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